“A special, mood-brightening medication that Chases “Blues.””? Does this mean she’ll stop saying “Your an insensitive idiot”, “You SOB” and “I don’t why I ever married you?” But of course those aren’t just “peroidic” problems.

Charlene says: June 6, 20118:48 pm

The “functional” in “functional menstrual distress” betrays why they added speed to Midol. Mid-century conventional wisdom tended to label any unexplained medical condition as psychogenic, in the same way that 21st century conventional wisdom labels any unexplained medical condition as attention-getting malingering. In either case, the blamers apparently believe that everything worth discovering has already been discovered, so anything unexplained must be fake.